Well in the case of family, you could always create an account, then include the debit amount in your will and make sure the will lists the amount as a debit used to reduce the inheritance size accordingly with the money debited going for cancer research or project SETI instead. That'll get their attention.
Well my understanding is SF City Council dropped the Earthquake codes for new construction in the early 1990s. Builders complained they added too much to the cost of new buildings and the state codes would be sufficient. Hopefully they will prove correct if/when a big one hits. We had a 5.9 on the Eastern seaboard a couple of years ago and because it was the first strong one in 200 years it caught lots of folks by surprise. Hopefully no more for another 200, but I would be happier if we got some earthquake construction codes passed on the East coast too.
My cats truly love the other kind of cricket. It is great fun that lasts hours to pull off just one leg and bat them about as they try to hobble jump away. Almost as good as pulling off four legs of a spider, but they say spiders are tastier.
Yeah is true. Do it now. Got a friend who moved away from home a few decades ago. Two months ago her mom suddenly died. Now every day she is regretting the almost zero communication with the mom at home. I think, how hard was it just pick up the phone and say, hi? But she rarely did. Now she cries about it. Do such things now while you still can.
It is easy to fix. Go someplace where things are utterly horrible every day and spend some time and money and maybe some of your own blood too fixing things. After a year or two of watching nice people you like have bad things happen in spite of your best efforts to prevent it, you will be less self-centered.
Actually in the US there have been civil cases where patients have indeed successfully sued the doctors for money lost waiting for a scheduled appointment that took hours to actually happen. The big decider for those court cases was when the person suing was/is able to document not just the fact they sat around for hours, but also show that doing so cost them big bucks in other arenas.
There still exists some doubt as to whether or not the quality of care was the true deciding factor vs. the drug. Both in combination worked well for this individual, but then a small percentage of humans do naturally survive a bout with Ebola anyway, so maybe neither quality of care, nor the drug were influential in his recovery as his natural genetics and overall state of health when the infection struck. ??? Much interest in seeing how his also infected spouse (about whose prognosis we are hearing little) is doing before we should jump on the bandwagon for the new drug.
When I was a kid, my mom would shop at the bargain stores and because no one else bought them, would buy me 6 pairs of red or bright green jeans for the cost of one pair of blue jeans. At a young age I learned how to bleach and die my jeans. :)
LJ, the first friend I wrote of, the husband died in a car accident shortly before I met her. The second friend was saved from a planned marriage by the civil war that swept Nepal when the royal family was murdered. For what it is worth, she has ZERO interest in ever returning to that country and the cultural system in place there. Truly she would not, having been fully Westernized with emancipated ways, fit in at all in her home village.
@ Post, that is half true. If you recall the original poster, then find a blog by them and the one you are looking for should be on the right, unless they deleted it. You can still add to it (unless they locked it), but like you say, it may be years before someone noticed you added a new comment. :)
LJ Yes, that still goes on in some places. Back in the early 80s I had a GF from Thailand whose American husband had purchased her from a hill tribe as a bride for a herd of goats. Then he imported her into the US and later died in a car crash.
More recently I have a good friend here in the US who only barely escaped a similar fate in Nepal. Go away from Katmandu and all of the old ways are still practiced, from isolation huts (or into the shed with the animals) for time of the monthly, to arranged marriages, and actual laws dictating how certain tribes/caste members must dress, etc.
So yes, the Spanish American War and the Japanese invasion and what followed changed Philippine culture, but sad to say, in some places barbarism still holds sway.
The good news is the virus has (so far as is known) mutated to an airborne variety yet. The bad news is that the areas of infection are spreading.
For what it is worth, this is a learning experience for all the governments not yet dealing with the problem. Even in Western countries the number of quarantine capable emergency room facilities is pretty small. Then Liberia's decision to quarantine an entire slum is right out of the Stephen King novels. I view that as a move of pure desperation, also being somewhat useless I suspect for several reasons.
Things wrong with quarantine of a Town by local police..
Sooner or later the inhabitants will be offering bribes for food and escape. Eventually someone will probably accept an offer of something, maybe more than once.
There needs to be a stand off distance between those being quarantined and those possibly infected. If the only barrier is a chicken wire fence as shown, sooner or later someone on one side of the fence will touch someone on the other side. Threatening to throw infected objects (such as bloody towels) at the guards also creates a problem. Even assuming you put a second fence 40 feet away from the first fence, you need to have a use of force policy in effect for what happens when your guards see someone breaking down the inner fence? Should your guards simply shoot such people, or let the fence be breached and create the possibility of your guards being infected? How will the media and world opinion react if the fence guards are allowed to simply shoot those who get too close? Will we call for the impeachment of, and trial in a world court of, a President who allows deadly force to be used to enforce the quarantine?
It is blood borne pathogen. To me that implies biting flies, ticks, fleas and mosquitoes may also be carriers. So too small animals carrying those pests. Remember the Bubonic Plague was spread by rats and fleas. So how tight is this quarantine area? Tight enough to block a fly or a mouse with fleas? Probably not.
Liberia's police are not well paid. Some of them probably either live in the quarantine area or have friends and family who live there. Tell me all of the officers are so dedicated to their job they will turn a blind eye when a neighbor, one of their relatives, spouse or even their own child seeks food or exit from the quarantine zone.
Reverend Moon did a televised marriage ceremony for thousands of his church followers back in the 70s. None of them had met their spouse and his church assigned the 'moonies' their new spouse. Problem was under the laws of many places it was a valid marriage. Some never did meet the actual spouse, but did get the subpoenas for divorce actions later. $$$$
Yes Spring, there are indeed some spiders that like sharks bear live young who like baby Great White sharks are born by the simple expedient of literally chewing their way out of momma. Like the baby critters in Aliens. Happens on earth too. Shark moms interestingly usually survive this as the babies tend to mostly pick a path her system will heal from. Not so for some spiders. Mother Nature really doesn't care what happens to the parents once the babies are born, especially if momma drops a few dozen at a time.
Yep, Usha, that is a Phoneutria,. Wikipedia says known to hide in piles of logs and damp places, also '.., can also appear in banana crates sent to grocery stores and bulk food centers around the world." Here is a video of one.
Yeah, it is a warning/threat posture. We understood that. It is 'look at me, see how scary I am, now run away.' What got us however was phase two. That didn't work, try plan B and play dead and harmless, which strongly implies a thinking and planning process. In a poisonous hunting spider? That is a dangerous critter.
The family has disclosed Robin Williams had also received a diagnosis of mid-stage Parkinson's Disease, so he was looking at an inevitable decline to diapers and at least his motive is understood.
Regarding loneliness. Well clearly it is harder to be lonely when you are not alone.
Coping with being solitary is an art by itself. Some can handle it for months and years, many can't. It depends on many factors.
Now boredom I can relate to. Get a hobby. Trust me it helps. Once in a while get with some other folks who share the same hobby. Conventions, shows, etc. Then you are neither bored nor alone.
I would develop interests other than commercial sports. Engine design, postage stamp variations, jogging, coin collecting, writing books, etc. The kids are gone. Now is the time to maximize and develop your true potential.
I use a service called reimage for emergencies, but my HD is auto backed up fairly regularly to a clone PC just for such times so I rarely have true emergencies.
LoL, if you really wish a good book that provides insight into how the male mind works may I suggest a reprint of 'Joe Millers Jokebook'? I believe there exist online extracts and copies. The gag about his needle with the silvery thread comes to mind as purely a male thought...
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Not to mention Northern Ireland in the time of The Troubles.